INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 296, 13 September 1927, Page 8

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

SCARLET FEVER STILL PREVALENT

The bulletin of infectious diseases in the Wellington health district for the week ended noon yesterday, shows a decided decrease compared with the previous week’s figures. Scarlet fever appears to be on the wane, although it is still prevalent, especially in the Central Wellington and Wairarapa-East Cape districts. Following are the figures for the hospital districts, those for the previous week being in parentheses:—

Watiganni-llorowhenua, 16 (25) ; scarlet fever, 3 (20) ; diphtheria, 1 (2) ; tuberculosis, 3 (0) ; pneumonia, 7 (2) ; fulminant influenza, 1 (0) ; poliomyelitis, 1 (0) ; erysipilas, 0 (1). Wairarapa-East Cape, 22 (16) ; scarlet fever, 14 (6) ; diphtheria, 2 (4) ; tuberculosis, 3 (2)'; pneumonia, 1 (2) ; pneumonic influenza, !• (0) ; cerebro spinal meningitis, 1 (1) ; trachoma, 0 (I). Central Wellington, 18 (27); scarlet fever, 14 (16) ; diphtheria, 2 (0) ; tuberculosis, 1 (3) ; poliomyelitis, 1 (0) ; erysipelas, 0 (3) ; pneumonia, 0 (3) ; fulminant influenza, 0(2). Nelson-Marlborough, L (1) ; scarlet fever, 1 (0) ; tuberculosis, fl (1). Total. 67 (69).

An interesting domestic event is expected shortly at the Auckland Zoo, as the birth of n young Hippopotamus is being awaited (says the •'Star”). As a precaution Mr. Hippo has been put in a separate enclosure, this being deemed necessary on account of his unseemly behaviour last year, when he saVaged his offspring, with fatal results. The Zoo officials state that it is very difficult to rear a baby hippo, and it is flow known that the Inlier has to be protected until it is able to fend for itself.

Members of a Gisborne audience at the “demonstration night” concert at the Opera House the other evening received a mild thrill as one performer look her seat at the piano (says the "Gisborne Times”). The chair immediately assumed a dangerous tilt, and only the adroitness of the .voting lady saved her from a crash. Inadvertently s.Ve. had placed one chair leg in an auger bole in the stage floor.